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<p><em><em>Brownlee Thomas, Ph.D., Dan Bieler, Henning Dransfeld, Ph.D., Bryan Wang, Clement Teo, Fred Giron, Michele Pelino, Ed Ferrara, Chris Sherman, Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.</em></em></p>
<p><span>Orange Business Services (Orange) </span><span>hosted its annual analyst event in Paris July 9th &amp; 10th. Our main observations are:</span></p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/christopher_sherman/13-07-23-orange_business_services_analyst_event_2013_the_cobbler_sticks_to_his_last" title="Read the rest of &#039;Orange Business Services Analyst Event 2013: The Cobbler Sticks To His Last&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_10071 first"><a href="/category/france_telecom" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">France Telecom</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/christopher_sherman/13-07-23-orange_business_services_analyst_event_2013_the_cobbler_sticks_to_his_last#commentsFrance TelecomOrange Business ServicesSecurity and Riskcloudendpoint securitymobile securitytelecommunicationsTue, 23 Jul 2013 11:44:56 +0000Christopher Sherman9555 at http://blogs.forrester.comOrange Business Services: Cautious Maybe – But Sensiblehttp://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/11-10-24-orange_business_services_cautious_maybe_but_sensible
<p>It's easy to bash incumbent telcos, to count them as being among the losers in the digital revolution. Cloud services players are taking business from telcos in the storage and server capacity space. Over-the-top providers are free-riding on the telco infrastructure. Software firms are eating into the communication business. Regulators are pressing for further price reductions. And to top this scenario, telcos are continuing to undercut each other in price wars.</p>
<p>During a round of executive discussions with Forrester, Orange Business Services (OBS) has shown that against these odds, it keeps a pretty even keel regarding the most hyped topics in ICT, most notably cloud and mobility. OBS is selective in its cloud offerings, focusing on UCaaS and IaaS. UCaaS is a natural extension of its communication business and thus falls into OBS' home turf. All telcos should see communication services from the cloud as a natural extension of what they have always done.</p>
<p>OBS' drive into IaaS, meanwhile, looks like a less convincing pitch. Its IaaS offering essentially comprises a virtual data centre offering with virtual firewalls and load balancing. The question is: How OBS can compete against the dominant cloud players in the storage and server space? In the short term, such an approach is conceivable. However, OBS will need to provide a much broader range of virtual infrastructure choices to avoid slipping into a low-margin market segment.</p>
<p>An interesting aspect of OBS' cloud activities relates to its <em>VPN Gallery</em> offering. This MPLS-based connectivity solution, which is sold both to cloud providers and an end user's VPN, provides secure access between the cloud and the provider and end user. Its simplicity makes this offering very attractive. Moreover, OBS is clever to turn classic cloud providers into customers with this offering.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/11-10-24-orange_business_services_cautious_maybe_but_sensible" title="Read the rest of &#039;Orange Business Services: Cautious Maybe – But Sensible&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_10071 first"><a href="/category/france_telecom" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">France Telecom</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/dan_bieler/11-10-24-orange_business_services_cautious_maybe_but_sensible#commentsCIOFrance TelecomOrange Business ServicesVPNcloud computingtelcostelecommunicationsMon, 24 Oct 2011 07:15:01 +0000Dan Bieler6892 at http://blogs.forrester.comKeeping The Lights On Keeps Decision-Makers Awake: OBS Can Help Them Rest More Easilyhttp://blogs.forrester.com/jennifer_belissent_phd/11-10-13-keeping_the_lights_on_keeps_decision_makers_awake_obs_can_help_them_rest_more_easily
<p>Business continuity is a top concern of global business and IT decision-makers. Headline news has made these concerns all the more acute - from the political unrest that characterized the "Arab Spring" and continues to plague certain countries in the Middle East to earthquakes, flooding, and other natural disasters across the globe. Those concerns become more acute as multinationals expand into new geographies such as Africa - a trend evidenced by recent announcements by <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/../../jennifer_belissent_phd/11-09-13-hp_expands_in_africa_dont_forget_that_gtm_is_not_csr">HP</a> and IBM.</p>
<p>Forrester's Forrsights Budgets and Priorities Tracker Survey and Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey confirm that both IT and business decision-makers prioritize business continuity to ensure ongoing operations of their businesses. "Significantly upgrading disaster recovery and business continuity" was the third-highest IT priority of both IT and business decision-makers with 68% of each reporting it as a critical or high priority, behind only consolidation and greater use of analytics. That is to say, although cost controls through consolidation and better business intelligence came out ahead, keeping the lights on keeps corporate leaders up at night.</p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/jennifer_belissent_phd/11-10-13-keeping_the_lights_on_keeps_decision_makers_awake_obs_can_help_them_rest_more_easily" title="Read the rest of &#039;Keeping The Lights On Keeps Decision-Makers Awake: OBS Can Help Them Rest More Easily&#039;." class="node_read_more">Read more</a><div class="categories"><h3>Categories:</h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy_term_664 first"><a href="/category/africa" rel="tag" alt="See other content with this tag." title="See other content with this tag.">Africa</a></li>
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</ul></div>http://blogs.forrester.com/jennifer_belissent_phd/11-10-13-keeping_the_lights_on_keeps_decision_makers_awake_obs_can_help_them_rest_more_easily#commentsAfricaBusiness continuityCIOFrance TelecomOrange Business Servicesemerging marketsThu, 13 Oct 2011 21:26:55 +0000Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.6843 at http://blogs.forrester.com